The four-leaf clover is green
Tuesday wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I started out my morning with the knowledge that I got an A on that erectile dysfunction paper. I waited a month and this was the only note the teacher left on the document: "well argued. but what are the theoretical implications of this example for theorizing power? i think you might know the answer, but aren’t risking saying so. take the risk!" Can I just point out his lack of capitalization? Also, I have no idea what the theoretical implications are. Or maybe I do and I just can’t think of them because he words things in a pretentious manner that goes way over my head.
Marketing Research was a bit of a roller coaster ride. We spent the entire class period doing fuck all because none of the statistical tests we ran worked or made sense. I thought I might know why, but our teacher didn’t really catch our mistake until I described to her explicitly why I didn’t think it would work. We could have done some cross-tabulation, but the way we set up our survey made it impossible. Oops! So, we just took the easy way out and pointed out the most obvious inferences we could make from the raw data and called it a day. The good part came when we got our tests back and I received a 98%. Guess who’s not taking the final?? Yay! I also got a high five from the guy in my group who I thought hated me. That’s always a plus, right?
Wednesday…not much happened. I just went to class and to work.
Yesterday…just school. For geology lab we took a trip up to Nederland…where it was snowing. Tamara was sick and therefore miserable and I got a headache, as I usually do, from mountain driving. Our bus driver was barreling up and down the mountain like a madman and I was about ready to start screaming.
Today I need to at least start thinking about my second paper for Contemporary Sociological Theory. It’s due Monday at midnight. The prompt is: "Immanuel Kant’s ‘What is Enlightenment?’ was written in response to an essay contest. Imagine a similar contest in 2012, which makes a call for blog posts. What would the question be? Having written the question, write the answer!" Oh lordy. I can’t decide if he’s expecting the question to be "What is modernity?" or "What is democracy?" Both are themes from the readings, but they’re both related and both entirely beyond my comprehension (at least, as far as I’m willing to comprehend). I also have no clue what he means by blog posts. Blogs and academic papers are VASTLY different, so I’m not sure if he’s just trying to be hip or if he expects us to write as though we were really making a blog post. I suppose there are some blogs out there that read more like essays, but the majority are short and informal. Actually, I just spotted a bit of clarification in my syllabus that says both papers are supposed to be 5-7 pages long. GOOD GOD.
So, Russell Crowe (Meghan’s dog) does this kind of cute thing where he brings you something (a toy or anything lying on the ground) if he’s happy to see you. This morning when Hannah came into my room, Russell dived under my pillow and presented my vibrator to her. Gee, thanks Russell. Not so cute.
Uh, so I just discovered Pottermore…and I’m a Hufflepuff, which confirms everything about myself that I thought was true. =P I even announced it on Facebook because I was that thrilled with myself. I made Hannah go through the sorting ceremony, too, because she affiliates herself with Hufflepuff, as well. She got sorted into Slytherin. Hah! Nerding out is the best procrastination tactic.
I was about to publish this when I was interrupted by Meghan and our cup of weed! =) She has class today and told me that campus is awful. Apparently they put fish fertilizer on Norlin Quad so that it smells too terrible to stand around. She verbalized the real issue perfectly: people are protesting the wrong thing. We should be protesting the fact that marijuana is illegal, not the fact that they’re keeping us from performing a mass act of civil disobedience.